First Pic Of Anna Maxwell In Jimmy McGovern BBC Drama

First Look At Anna Maxwell-Martin In Jimmy McGovern‘s ‘Unforgivable‘

Here’s a first look at prolific British scribe Jimmy McGovern’s latest BBC sexual abuse drama, Unforgivable. The images, more of which can be seen below, show Emmy winner Anna Friel (Marcella), Bobby Schofield (Time), Anna Maxwell-Martin (Motherland), David Threlfall (Shameless) and Austin Haynes (Adolescence) in character. The show, filmed and set in Liverpool, follows Schofield’s Joe, who arrives at an institution offering him a home and rehab after he finishes a prison sentence. He begins therapy sessions with ex-nun Katherine (Maxwell-Martin), while his sister, Anna (Friel), deals with the enormous impact his crime has had on her family. Time and Cracker writer McGovern wrote the scripts, with LA Productions producing the BBC Two and BBC iPlayer drama. Julia Ford is the director and Donna Molloy the producer. McGovern and Colin McKeown from LA Productions are exec producers alongside Nawfal Faizullah and Katherine Bond for the BBC.

Blast Films Hires Creative Director Following Disney+’s ‘The Rooneys’ Commission

Fresh off the back of a new Disney+ series following Wayne Rooney and wife Coleen, Blast Films has hired Mindhouse exec Barnaby Coughlin as Creative Director, Popular Factual and Formats. Sky Studios-backed Blast will push into popular factual and formats with the move, starting with The Rooneys [working title], which was on a Disney+ UK slate yesterday alongside a Blind Date reboot and documentary following Jamie Laing and wife Sophie Habboo. While at Louis Theroux’s Mindhouse, Coughlin executive produced and developed multiple projects including Prime Video biopic KSI: In Real Life, Channel 4’s Sex Actually with Alice Levine and podcast How To Be… with Rylan Clark. He will work alongside Tanya Winston, Creative Director of Factual, and report to Chief Creative Officer Danny Horan. “Barnaby brings a wealth of experience in developing and producing engaging factual content and we’re delighted he’s joining our thriving team at such an exciting time,” said Horan.

Australians Stream More Docs Than Anywhere Else – Study

Australians are the most hooked on streaming documentaries, research from Digital-i has revealed. Data from a new study, first presented by media consultant Beatrice Rossmanith at Sunnyside of the Doc last week, shows that 75% of Australian subscribers to Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video and Max watched at least 20 minutes of a documentary or docu-series between January and March this year. In comparison, the lowest-ranked country, Japan, saw just 32% of collective subs stream the same amount. The UK, Canada and Nordic region were all tied in second place, with 67%, and the U.S. was just behind at 65%. Previous Digital i research highlighted a propensity for true-crime docs. The good news for doc makers and sellers is Digital i’s study shows subs in 2024 across the 17 countries polled are streaming more docs, with the average up from 4 hours and 8 minutes per month in 2023 to 4 hours and 34 minutes.